Sin Is Sin And The Wages Of Sin Is Death – You Need Jesus

Hello, and welcome to Social Media Ministries, my name is Spencer Coffman. Our mission here is to use social media to spread the living Word of God to as many people as possible and also to help them understand and interpret the scriptures in the Bible.

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That’s the mission here. That’s what it is. It’s helping them understand and interpret the Scriptures in the Bible. You can help us with that, it’s for God’s glory, not for us. Not for humans, not for you to share it and to have a bunch of people interacting, not for us to have a post or a video that goes viral, not for anything like that. It’s for God.

You may be out there laughing, saying, “Yeah right.” Well then, that’s your mentality and that’s something you gotta change, you gotta get right with that. Seek God. But for those of us who know and love Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we know truly that that’s what this is about.

Today we are talking about a message that might hit you upside the head a little bit and might cause you to realign your perspective with the world and to change your understanding because sin is sin. Of course, you say, “Well what does that mean?” Well, it means that no matter what there is, it’s sin. It’s not good. It’s separation from God.

Let’s dive in a little bit more. It’s said there are 613 commandments throughout the Bible, 613 laws for you to follow. Do you follow them? You follow all 613. Are you doing a good job? Are you a good Christian? We have talked about that before in another message. I encourage you to check it out in a card here. Navigate to our YouTube channel. You can find it, “Are You A Good Christian?”

James Chapter 2 Verse 10 says, “For whoever keeps the whole law, but stumbles at one point, is guilty of breaking all of it.” Do you understand the magnitude of that? It means if you follow 612 commandments your whole life, but you screw up on one of them, you are exactly as guilty as everyone else. That may be hard for you to believe. You say, “Wait a minute, does that mean that I’m exactly as guilty as someone like Hitler or Stalin or the serial killers?” Yeah, it does. It does.

Some of you may not be watching anymore, but for those of you who are still here, sin is sin; whether you lie, cheat, steal, murder, etc, sin is sin. You are exactly as guilty as everyone else. But there’s one thing that sets you apart from people like them, to be people like you, and that’s Jesus.

The people like Hitler or the serial killers, they don’t have Jesus. They’re living for the devil. If you have Jesus, you’re different. Although your sin is equal to theirs, you have the saving grace that they don’t have. So in the final judgment, they will be tormented whereas you will be able to live in Heaven. That’s where the punishment happens, that’s where the justice is served, on that last day.

Whether you only sin once or you sin 1,000 times, you still have the same fate. You will go to hell and be separated from Christ forever. We’ve talked about this before. All sins are equal. Check it out in another one of our messages, navigate to our YouTube channel. You can find it, “All Sins Are Equal.”

Sin is sin, and again whether you sin once in your life or you sin once every single day, it’s the same fate. Romans 6:23 says, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Sin is sin. “The wages of that sin is death.” Separation from God. You could go your whole life without sinning, seriously your whole life. Let’s say from age zero all the way up and you live to be 80, your whole life without sinning, then on your deathbed you get mad and you snap at a nurse or someone and you sin right there before you die, guess what? You’re condemned exactly like the person who’s sinning their entire life.

Now you may not believe that. You may say, “No this isn’t good, that isn’t what we’re doing. You’re saying that if I’m good and I go to church all the time and I’m doing good in my life and someone doesn’t, we’re the same?”

Or what about that person who spends their whole life murdering people, but then on their deathbed converts to Jesus, will they be saved? They will. They will. You could spend your whole life working for God and someone could spend their whole life working against God and in the end you can both be saved.

You can. Why? Because we are saved by grace. Jesus Christ died for anyone who accepts Him. We’re saved by grace, not by works. Why? So that no one can boast about their good works. You can’t boast about how you are a good Christian and how you go to church all the time and how this and this and this, because you’re saved by grace not by your works.

Now does that mean you’re like, “All right I got a free pass for my whole life? I can just go out there and do whatever I want. What’s the point of doing good if at the end I just come to Jesus? I’m all set.” It’s one way of your mentality, you could believe that if you want.

But see the thing about that is, when you have Jesus in your heart, when you accept Him as your Lord and Savior, something changes inside of you. You’re filled with the Spirit. You can get baptized with the Spirit and now all of a sudden you have this desire to do good, to live for Jesus, because that is what He would want you to do.

It’s in you, so you’re not going to go out there after having that, you’re not going to go out there and commit all these sins and say, “It’s okay, I’m saved by grace” because that’s not how your mind will work. Your old is gone, the new has come. You’re a new creation. Your past self is dead. You have died with Christ and you’ve risen with him as well.

The old is gone, the new has come. You’re a new creation and so you will not behave like that anymore. You will not behave that way, you’re going to have a different mentality. If you’re out there doubting that that’s even possible, give it a shot.

I dare you, ask Jesus to be in your life, to change your life, ask for forgiveness of your sins. Jesus, come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, thank you for dying for me, I want to live for you and mean it. Mean it. I’m not kidding, you will change. You will have that mentality of, “I want to live for God, I want to do good, I don’t want to disappoint Him.”

Almost like a child wants to make their father or their mother proud, so they will not go on sinning. Even though yes, all sins are equal and you could sin your whole life or you could sin for 5 years or 20 years, you come to Jesus and He will save you because we’re saved by grace. That still means that we want to try to make the world a better place. We want to grow the Kingdom of God. We want to do good works, but it’s not the works that will save us.

It’s not the works. Everyone sins, everyone falls short of God’s perfect standard. Romans 3:23 says, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” All, everyone has sinned. The only way to defeat your sin and to be saved on that last day of judgment is to accept Jesus as your savior. He is the only one who can save you from your sin.

John 14:6 Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the light. No one goes to the Father except through me.” That means the only way for you to get to Heaven is through Jesus Christ. Not by going to church three times a week or one time a week. Not by saying certain prayers every single day, multiple times a day. Not by helping others. Not by talking to people about certain things.

Not by volunteering all your time. Not by living as a nomad. Not by living in poverty. Not by helping the homeless. Not by working at soup kitchens. Not by selling everything and giving your money to the poor. But by Jesus Christ, we are saved. That’s it. By grace from Jesus.

What is grace you say? Okay well now we got to get into grace, because why would Jesus do that? Why would He save someone who has been committing terrible crimes all their life until the minute before they die? Why would He save them? Why would He save the person who a year before they die converts to Jesus? They say “Why, why would He save those people?” Because it’s grace.

What’s grace? It means giving something that they do not deserve. Grace is extending love. Giving that person something that they don’t deserve. They have done nothing to deserve going to Heaven.

But Jesus wants to give it to them anyway. It’s free. It’s a free gift of eternal life. If you want it, all you have to do is ask and you will receive. You will receive it. It’s grace. H’s giving it to you and you have done nothing to deserve it.

In fact, you have done everything opposite of deserving it. You’ve done everything so that you don’t deserve it. Grace is like when you deserve this over here, this horrible thing, you deserve that. The punishment of sin is death. The wages of sin is death, you deserve that.

God says, “I want to give you the opposite. I want to give you life.” You say, “But I deserve this.” That’s okay. Grace. I have grace. I want to give you this. You may say, “But I don’t deserve that.” I want to give it to you, you can have it, just take it, accept it.

“I-I-I-I don’t deserve it, what you’re giving me.” That’s okay. That’s grace. It’s not like I’m just giving it to you and then I’m gonna guilt you into it later or I’m gonna hold you to a certain standard so you have to keep it or make you earn it, no, it’s grace. It means that once you take it, it’s yours. You can be saved through Jesus Christ. It is grace.

He wants to give it to you. Accept it and instead of thinking like, “Well I’m better than this person or this person was a murderer all along and then they converted on their deathbed, why should they go to Heaven?”

Instead of having those thoughts, those thoughts are evil, they’re worldly, earthly justice. We’re not of this world. Remember God is in a different Kingdom. So instead of having thoughts like that, have heavenly thoughts and say, “How awesome is it that that person finally converted and became a follower of Christ even if it was one minute before they died?”

How awesome is it? How great is it that this person became a follower of Christ halfway through their life so that they now have half of their life to serve Christ, to grow the Kingdom? Take a look at Saul.

When he converted on the road to Damascus, Christ blinded him. “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” Jesus said. Saul went on the way and eventually scales came off of his eyes and he could see again and he’s like,” I don’t believe it.”

He spent his whole life and in a lot of the most recent years before that conversion killing Christians, publicly hating them, killing the followers of Christ. Then all of a sudden he converts and he wants to go help them. He says, “I want to grow this Kingdom” and they’re like, “No way, you’ve been trying to kill me and now you want to help me?”

It took them a while to build that trust, but eventually, they learned that we’re working for a heavenly Kingdom. Our world is not here. I need to get rid of this earthly standard that this is a bad person because his spirit has now changed. He’s now indwelled with God in the Holy Spirit and he’s working for the same heavenly Kingdom that I’m working for.

So get rid of that earthly vision and that earthly thought that he’s a bad person, because of the sins he has committed, that he has already been saved. He has been saved by grace so now you guys are on the same side working together for the same goal.

We need to remember to have the heavenly thoughts, think heavenly thoughts. That yes, even though this person may be a bad person all their life and then convert, you were a bad person too. Maybe you were fortunate enough to convert to Christianity earlier than they were. That’s what it’s all about. Instead of being upset that that person can be saved so late in the game.

Be happy that you were saved so early in the game, that you didn’t have to go through all that nonsense that they had to. Be happy that they’re saved now. At the end, that’s one more person in The Book of Life that can go to Heaven and that’s one more person that can help grow the Kingdom of God during the time that they have left.

There was a preacher that someone was asking him how his week went or how his night went or how the sermon went or something like that, and he was saying, “Well it was good. We saved one whole person and one half a person.”

The person is like “Okay, so you saved one adult and one half a person? A child?” The preacher said, “No, the opposite. We save one whole person as a child because they have their whole life to serve Christ and to bring more people to Christ, and one-half person because they only have half their life to serve Christ and do good.”

Always be happy if someone converts to Christianity no matter what point of their life it is. But be thankful that you have converted when you did so that you have more of your life to serve Christ.

Sin is sin. The wages of it is death and if we were to get what we deserved, we would all die. But Jesus saved us by grace. He gave us this free gift that we don’t deserve. Accept it and share it with others. No matter how many good things you do, it would never be enough to get you into Heaven. Remember there is only one way, Jesus. Through grace.

“Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous, no one who does what is right and never sins.” Ecclesiastes 7:20. Not even one person is as perfect as Jesus. Jesus was the only one. So He’s the only way. Remember that. No matter what happens in life, you need to be glad and rejoice at each and every person who accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

Whether it’s at the beginning and they have their entire life to serve Christ, or whether it’s in the middle and they have half their life, or whether it’s at the end and they only have a portion of their life left. Rejoice that they have come into the Kingdom of God.

No matter what they have done in the past, if they’ve asked for forgiveness, God has forgiven them. Their sins have been forgiven. God is love. He loves us so much. He wanted to give us the gift of salvation through grace. We do not deserve it, but He wants to give it to us anyway. Why? Because He loves us. God is love.

God is love and what’s love? Love keeps no record of wrongs. Therefore if those people were forgiven, no matter what they did during their life, God keeps no record of that because He loves them. He loves you, so seek forgiveness. Encourage others to do the same. No matter what they have done.

Even if they tell you when you’re trying to get them to accept Jesus, if they say “I have done some pretty bad things in my life.” “Are you sorry?” “Yeah, I feel bad about it.” “Then okay, seek forgiveness.” The bad things that you did, they don’t matter. Just don’t do them again. Seek forgiveness, turn to Jesus, He wants to save you through grace. He will give it to you. You don’t deserve it, but He will give it to you anyway.

If you need help speaking with someone trying to share Jesus with them, you can share any of our messages, you can comment, you can tag them. We can comment, we could talk to them with you. If you need help making that decision to follow Christ, if you’re listening and you’re thinking that I have done so much wrong, how could God ever forgive me? He can.

Jesus forgave those while He was being crucified. He said Father, forgive them. They didn’t even ask for His forgiveness, but He was asking God to forgive them anyway. That’s grace. He will forgive you too, you just have to ask.

If you need help, if you need to know what to do, it’s very simple: “Jesus, thank you for dying for me. Please forgive me of my sins. Come into my heart. Guide my life. I want to live for you. Amen.” That’s it. If you need help with that if you want to make that decision, comment below, contact us on social media, send us a message. We would love to help you do that.

If you need help speaking to someone else about it, comment below. If you have some discussion that is going on with someone and they seem to be having better points than you, comment below, we can help you.

We can support you in that. We’re all in this together. We’re all working for the same Kingdom, whether you started halfway through your life, at the beginning of your life, or at the end of your life, we all have the same goal.

Look at Saul and the apostles. They did not really want to work with him, they thought he was going to try to kill them, and then when they realized they all had the same goal, they became so much more together.

Let’s work together and grow the Kingdom of God. God keeps no record of wrongs. Let us too forgive everyone else and keep no record of the wrongs and work together hand in hand to the same goal of bringing others to Christ.

Let’s pray. Jesus thank you for this message on knowing that sin is sin and we’re not good enough, we’re separated from you, we cannot work our way into Heaven, we cannot do enough good to please you to get to Heaven.

The only way we can be saved is through your son Jesus Christ. Thank you so much for giving us what we do not deserve, for giving us that grace, for wanting to save each and every one of us.

Lord, I ask that anyone out there listening, that anyone out there watching, that they would make that decision to be saved and to save others. Lord that you would eliminate the earthly thoughts in our minds, that sin which ranks people are worse than other people, that we would start to see them through your eyes as lost souls who want to be saved or who can be saved and as children of God.

That we would just see it black and white, they are either of the devil or they’re of you, and that we would try to work together to bring more people to be of you. Lord, I know that there are so many crimes of evil in this world and they make me sick, but I know God that you still want to save them. Help us work together to do exactly that, to grow your Kingdom. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

It’s really simple. Jesus has extended grace so that you can be saved. Share it with others so that they can be saved as well. God bless.